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Emergency management: fire restrictions easing, burn permits to resume; fire tender purchase delayed pending vendor pricing

5801205 · September 15, 2025
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The county’s emergency-management director said state fire restrictions were expected to lift and the county would resume approving burn permits; staff also sought direction on purchasing a fire tender but asked to delay while vendor pricing and alternative tanks are confirmed.

Duchene County’s director of emergency management, Josh Phillips, told the commission on Sept. 15 that state fire restrictions were anticipated to be lifted and that county burn-permit approvals would resume once the state finalized its notice. Phillips said the county had already issued at least one special permit over the weekend (a burn to dispose of botulism-contaminated hay for a resident) and would…

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